Dear Member,
Havant Cricket Club welcomes you to the Club. We hope that you and your children will enjoy being a club member and will enjoy the cricket coaching, training and matches, as well as the social interactions available.
The aim of this letter is to provide helpful information to you as members. Please feel free to ask me or any committee member or coach if you have any questions not answered in this letter. A full list of officers, committee members, coaches and officials can be found on the HCC website and on the notice board in the pavilion. If you would like to meet a member of the Club in private to share or request any specific information, we would be happy to arrange a time, please feel free to get in touch.
Club main contacts are:
- Club Chairman: Andrew Galliers — chairperson@havantcc.com
- Club Secretary: Simon Morgan — hongensec@havantcc.com
- Club Safeguarding Officers: Selina Jones — selinajones05@hotmail.co.uk, and Brian Swan — brian.swan1@ntlworld.com
- Youth Manager: Jonathan Manhire — colts@havantcc.com
- Havant Hawks: Pippa Cassford and Gemma Joyce — hawks@havantcc.com
We are a community-based club run predominantly by volunteers. We welcome any offers of help from all our members and hope that you will feel able to get involved; we expect all of our parents/guardians to help in some way. We really appreciate the level of support received from our parents/guardians which ranges from coaching, umpiring, scoring, BBQ’ing, administrating and more. We calculate that we receive around 1,500 volunteering sessions a year without which the Club could not operate.
We are an ECB Clubmark accredited Cricket Club and we adhere to the ‘Safe Hands’ Policy for Safeguarding Children in Cricket. This is available to view online at ecb.co.uk/safeguarding, or on the HCC website under the Club Documents menu. All of the adults at the Club who work with children meet the necessary criteria and are checked and vetted by the ECB, including the enhanced DBS and ‘Barred List’ check (formerly known as CRB checks).
Whilst we hope your child will be happy and content at the Club, we understand that sometimes questions, concerns or difficulties may arise. Please feel able to raise these as soon as possible, so we can rectify things at the earliest opportunity. If you have a question regarding coaching, please approach the coach in the first instance. Our coaches will be happy to speak to you before or after training or at another convenient time. Please do not interrupt coaching sessions, as this may distract the coach when they need to be supervising the children.
If you have any concern about your child or another child, or about the behaviour of any adult at the Club, please speak to me, the Club Safeguarding Officer by email selinajones05@hotmail.co.uk. (If your concern is about me, you may contact the County Safeguarding Officer John Cook by email john.cook@utilitabowl.com.)
If you have questions about kit requirements, training times, pick-up arrangements etc. please speak to your Coach.
All members and parents/guardians of members are reminded that on registration you and your children confirm that you are aware of and agree to abide by all Club Policies including:
- Safeguarding (including training available for ALL involved in cricket)
- Codes of Conduct
- Policies and Procedures
- Accident and Injury
- Regulations and Guidance
All documents are available to view on the HCC website under the Club Policies & Documents menu; in the Policy Folder in the Pavilion; and posted, where relevant, on the Club's notice boards.
We do hope that you and your children enjoy being a member of Havant Cricket Club, and if you have any concerns, please do let me know.